Wow! How did we make it to three months already (read his birth story,one month recap, or two month recap)? I think this means Patriot is officially out of the newborn stage and boy has he really grown and changed in the past month.

Feeding

Much the same as last month–Patriot is still exclusively breastfed. Most of the time I feed him directly from me but he will get a bottle of pumped milk if we are meeting friends for dinner. He’s still demand fed and during the day feeds about 8-10 times.

Sleeping

What is sleep? Continuing with last month’s frequent wakings, Patriot has had 1-2 “long” sleep sessions at night, that last 3-4 hours. On a good day I can get him to bed by 7PM and he will sleep for 3 hours, then wake for a feed and sleep for another 3-4 hours. After that he will wake every 2 hours in the night for feedings.

On a bad day, he fights going to bed and every 30-45 minutes he cries and wants to be cuddled. Around 9 or 10PM I give up and join him in bed and then he sleeps for 3 hours. Afterwards he wakes for a feed and continues to wake up every hour for more milk and cuddles.

His jet lag from traveling was never too bad and usually the worst of it only took about 2 days, but I am so glad to be staying put this month and I’m hoping he’ll start to sleep for longer periods of time at night.